“The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.”

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Dip him in the river who loves water.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Every harlot was a virgin once

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.

She is beautiful contraction; a fragile heart with indestructible love.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

My heart has a history of silent catastrophes.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Pride is the cause of the most damaging fall for the soul.